Online Journalism

Summary: The San Mateo-based SEO firm BrightEdge released an audit of 1,000 companies and found that 25 percent of them back-link to sites that put them at risk of corrective actions by search engine companies. In a TechCrunch article released today, results of a two-week audit by SEO firm BrightEdge show that approximately 25 percent […]

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In today’s globalized age, many business partners are working together on projects that cannot be completed without some sort of visual collaboration. However, constantly playing email tag and attaching documents constantly can be tedious and unsuccessful. With these issues in mind, Mindmeister.com came up with a creative solution. By allowing users to create “mind maps” […]

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Our project’s goal is to recover NAMI Northern Virginia history and present it interactively. We will conduct interviews with past board members, do research about the institution and gather information about its history. We will be using different online platforms to organize and present the information. Our project will be constructed around an interactive timeline. […]

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Photoshop has been a widely-used program in the media realm for quite awhile. However, now that nearly all images are digitally captured and edited, a concrete understanding of the program is necessary to be successful in the business today. That being said, my experience in the STAR lab Photoshop workshop was extremely useful and informative. […]

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Summary: A new iPod touch/ iPhone/ iPad application and accompanying microphone released today by IK Multimedia will allow you to become a mobile audio journalist. Read the TechCrunch review here.

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Although I already have some knowledge of Adobe InDesign from my experience as editor of my high school yearbook, The Shield, I felt that a little refresher course never hurt anyone – especially in today’s technological age. I knew a lot of the skills we went over, such as how to set up a master […]

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My team, which is comprised of Melissa, Ryan, Nick, Lijam and Julia, is doing our project on theraputic hockey. We are specifically focusing on the NoVa Cool Cats hockey team based in the Northern Virginia area. Our team created a storyboard on MindMeister, which can be found here. My role in the project is to […]

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